vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: bdvs-password-reset: CVE-2023-35039: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 14, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The Password Reset with Code for WordPress REST API is vulnerable to a Weak Password Recovery Mechanism in versions up to, and including, 0.0.15. This allows unauthenticated attackers to set a 4-digit password recovery code for arbitrary users that, if guessed correctly, will allow them to reset the password for that user. Although each code is only allowed 3 tries by default, there is no restriction on the number of code generation attempts allowed, effectively reducing the entropy of the password reset mechanism to 4 digits. Additionally the code generation mechanism uses str_shuffle which does not use a cryptographically secure PNRG.

Solution

bdvs-password-reset-plugin-cve-2023-35039
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